Question: There is the concept “there is none else besides Him” and the concept “shame of the receiver.” How closely are they interconnected?

Answer: The desire to receive and the desire to bestow are very closely interconnected with each other and manifest in a person depending on one’s choice, on what one wishes to receive, in how one wants to feel oneself and the entire universe.

Then we will experience firsthand how this changes.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What’s wrong with the fact that egoism drives us to constant development? After all, it’s natural.

Answer: Yes, it is natural, but egoism does not let us enjoy life. It does not allow us to build a normal present or future.

Comment: But some people who use others do enjoy themselves.

Answer: No, that is not enjoyment. That is an unnatural state because you are only thinking about how to be above others.

If you take any person in the world, not a single one is truly happy. Even millionaires or very famous people are still far from happiness. And the greatest misfortune lies in the fact that, aside from the problems of this life that we are constantly running from, our entire existence is a race toward death. Therefore, all of one’s previous life is, in principle, absolutely meaningless.

Question: Millionaires are unhappy. And are Kabbalists happy and not running away from death?

Answer: Kabbalists have a completely different axis of values. The meaning of their life lies in the revelation of the Creator and in belonging to this eternal, perfect quality. It is precisely this that they strive for, and this pursuit practically has no end. But at every moment it gives the Kabbalist inexpressible, indescribable states of perfection.

Question: Are you saying that along the way he is also happy?

Answer: Yes, there is absolutely no end. You are simply happy. Of course, one could say: “Stop a moment, you are beautiful!” But in principle, in every moment of your history, of your movement, you are still in contact with the eternal, perfect force.

This is an entirely different perception that completely changes a person’s philosophy. Now he acts not out of fear, not out of deficiency, not out of the state of having to quickly achieve something, but out of a state of fulfillment, of perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/3/2018

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Question: What does it mean to reveal the sinner within yourself during the lesson, and what should one do with this?

Answer: In the process of studying, we begin to separate thoughts and actions into positive or negative, that is, to clarify what in us is positive or negative in our actions, in our intentions. In this way, we will move forward.

Question: Should I be searching for the sinner within myself right now?

Answer: You won’t be able to find either a sinner or a righteous one within yourself. For that, you must delve deeper and deeper into the study. And then you will feel from the material being studied itself whether it relates to a positive or a negative form.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #59 “Concerning the Staff and the Serpent” (11.15.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 118

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 8 “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2” (1985)

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Question: How can one strive to study TES (Talmud Eser Sefirot, The Study of the Ten Sefirot) not for the sake of receiving, but for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Think about this all the time. I have no other advice right now.

Question: To whom is TES revealed? To one who thinks about this or to one who is patient? What is the main quality needed for the Creator to be revealed?

Answer: The main thing is to be similar to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: We study that in the branch everything that exists in the root is pleasant. It follows that when we go through the path of correction, we calibrate everything that belongs to our root. But then where do desires and pleasures that are not inherent to the root come from? After all, they do exist.

Answer: And there will be even more. But we must agree with this, check and you will see that they do not appear out of nowhere.

Gradually we will come to know them, become acquainted with them, and feel how it is possible to correct them.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Does shame follow fear?

Answer: The development of shame leads us to the feeling that we are different from the Creator.

Question: Is the right work that we have to reveal a multitude of our thoughts within the thought “One, Single, Unified,” in order to bring them all back to it, or should we come from the multitude of thoughts to one thought?

Answer: Right now, it doesn’t matter. Either this way or that way. In any case, we are moving toward something unified, where the Creator and His attitude toward all of creation is revealed to us.

Question: Is shame a method that I use or does it turn into a Kli for receiving the light?

Answer: It is a Kli for receiving the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What is this part of the Creator, “the soul in a person that has separated from the Creator”?

Answer: It is the light of the Creator that the created being receives within its desire to enjoy. Through this the created being becomes completely separated from the Creator and feels this separation.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is said that when the creations separate from each other, they cease to receive fulfillment. But I see that even in this state suddenly great illuminations and great pleasures appear. For example, even a very experienced friend can go against the whole ten and say: “This is my opinion. I am even ready to give up spirituality, but I will not depart from my opinion.” From where does such an illumination come?

Answer: From human egoism.

Question: But the system works in such a way that fulfillment comes only from the upper to the lower, while egoism is the lowest point. Where does any pleasure of its own come from?

Answer: It is not quite so. The point is that the desire to be filled relates to egoism, that is, to the lower, while the desire to fill is the desire of the upper. In this they differ from each other. But the lower, that is, the creation, cannot reach the upper,  the Creator, by its own power. It doesn’t have any way to do that.

The only thing it can achieve this is if it detaches from the Creator and works only with its own desire to bestow, that is, it becomes similar to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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